But of course would lose the map on reboot. So install “sudo apt-get install cifs-utils” and then Everytime I tried to add to fstab and “sudo mount -a” I would get the mount error(13) permission denied.

What fixed it was changing the sec on my command to “ntlmsspi”. Hope this helps someone else. So my command in fstab (/etc/fstab) is

I won’t get into the security implications of doing this, but just the 2 methods I have found to get it done. My use case was a simple single digital sign that no one had physical access to, and popped this up on every scheduled or unscheduled reboot.

If you don’t mind entering a password on boot, then go to User Accounts and set “automatic login” to off.

If you want it to auto login and still not ask for the login keyring (again forgoing the security lecture), go into your “Startup Programs” and uncheck the Keyrings from starting.

I have a older program who’s backup process is a bit flaky. And there is no notification to me on whether it actually backed up or not. Then I ran across this little program called Blat (www.blat.net), and it gave me an idea. I now have a script that runs after the scheduled backup window (via Task Scheduler) to check to see if the file is actually in the backup folder and if not, to email me.